At times during spring training, Adrian Beltre just disappeared.
It was all by design, just not his design.
He didn't go out to the back fields with the rest of his Texas Rangers teammates. There were days when he didn't even go outside for a breath of fresh desert air.
Beltre wanted to go 0 to 60 on Day 1. The Rangers stomped on the parking break.
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The plan was to prevent a repeat of last year, when Beltre was on the disabled list on Opening Day through the last Monday in May and played only 93 games.